'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
We open it up, we talks the talk, we votes, we shuts it down. This thread is to free up Bureaucracy for daily details as we hammer out the Big Issues towards a vote. Open only when a proposal has been made and seconded according to Buffista policy (Which we voted on!). If this thread is closed, hie thee to Bureaucracy instead!
In my head, the thread has been afforded a lengthy lifespan, and I think that's because of the Jossiness of the whole thing--but how much longer? Does it stay forever when there are other perfectly appropriate places here to have the same conversations?
I'm with bon--the tenacity of a thread once created boggles me.
I think it should be afforded the opportunity to die a natural death. Not forever, just for now.
And I don't think there are other perfectly appropriate places for conversation. But obviously YPAPFCMV.
How are you defining a natural death? I mean, I agree with the idea, I just think the time has come.
We could propose that if it doesn't reach 500 posts in six months, we take it off the feeding tube, as well.
There's no doubt that this rule would help with the housekeeping. By this standard, there are a half-dozen threads that can be closed today.
I imagine that it must feel very unfair to those who are still posting in thread to hear it called dead or useless. I don't see why it hurts to leave it open. I certainly sympathize with their desire to not get lost in the shuffle.
You've got it, Kristin. The show is dead. The movies, probably so. The thread is not. There are other threads that get fewer posts that no one is calling dead. There are both new and longtime posters that both use it and passionately want to continue doing so. It's not a new thread, and we've shown a willingness to eliminate unused or unwanted threads before (book club, experimentals, maybe more), so I don't see a need to get rid of it just to make the point that we will.
By this standard, there are a half-dozen threads that can be closed today.
Threads that are close to 10,000 posts?
The distinction between closing a thread and not opening a new thread after the current one reaches 10,000 matters to me. If we do open a new thread, closing it after 400 messages or whatever would seem less organic to me.
Threads that are close to 10,000 posts?
I don't understand the logic here. It's reaching 10,000 posts because people have been using it. There are other threads that will never reach 10,000 because they are rarely used. Using 10,000 as the decision point ensures that you will kill off threads that get modest use long before you kill off threads that get almost no use. Why is that a good idea?
It's odd, but I think that closing the Firefly thread is something I want to do as a huge fan of the show. Keeping it open just feels weird.
This is where I'm coming from.
The thread is not dead, just slow. Firefly posts pop up consistently at least several times a month.
See, to me it seems that the show hasn't been discussed for quite some time. Now it's references to craxyfen and bits of interviews of actors who seem to be tiring of talking about the show. It's just sad, and I'd rather it not get even more sad.
eta: Which is not to say that those post are unwelcome. I just wouldn't find it so sad if they were in Minearverse, Natter, Boxed Set, or wherever.
I'm all for killing off threads with slower activity than 1000 posts a year, but if you want to make an argument why Firefly is different from those, those threads had evergreen subjects, whether fic, Minear shows, premium tv or whatever. This one is about something that is fixed and done.